Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Doonmore, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmore
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74025, -9.53817
- SMR number
- CL046-019001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a broad headland on the W side of Doonbeg Bay in an area of fertile pasture and tillage.
The view from the site is limited, although a towerhouse named Dromore Castle (CL046-019002-) which was built on the headland can be seen from some distance away. A pier has been built immediately to the northeast of the castle. Sea rocks jutting out 40m from the headland suggest that it may have been larger at one time. Two banks and a counterscarp bank (L 40m) extending in a straight line across the W part of the headland and enclosing an area 50m x 70m were noted and photographed by Markus Casey during an aerial survey (Casey 1999, 214, Clare P4). The remains are not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 November 2018
References
Casey, M. 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.